Nick Miroff

In Latin America, right in retreat as left wins more elections
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 00:00
If anything, the strong-armed statist model that Chavez promoted during his 14-year rule has served as a cautionary tale for leftist candidates in the region.
Mexicali has become Mexico's city of the deported as U.S. dumps more people there
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 00:00
Once, border cities like Mexicali (population 700,000) were flooded with newcomers trying to go north. Today, they are filling with obstinate deportees, cut off from U.S.-born children, jobs and car payments, adrift in a kind of stateless purgatory
Tension increases in Honduras, as election sparks competing claims of victory, fraud
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 00:00
Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, the leftist president toppled in a 2009 coup and the husband of presidential candidate Xiomara Castro, told a hotel ballroom full of feverish supporters that their Free Party had rejected the electoral process and would &quo
In Honduras, democracy crashed at a dangerous airport
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 00:00
Opposition to Zelaya built, particularly among the stratum of Honduran society that uses airplanes. Within a year of the airport closure, Zelaya was toppled in a coup.
After Honduras vote, competing presidential candidates claiming victory
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 00:00
Honduras appeared headed for a new political showdown late Sunday, as competing presidential candidates began claiming victory with less than half of the ballots counted.
U.S. flying deportees deep into Mexico, over dangerous border
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 00:00
The deportee flights from El Paso, Tex., to Mexico City aboard "ICE Air"- the agency's name for its charters-represent the first time that U.S. authorities will send home Mexican returnees by air on a large-scale, sustained basis.
Honduran gangs offer peace from prison
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 00:00
The 18th Street gang and its arch rival, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, have taken small, suspicion-filled steps in recent weeks toward what church leaders and their supporters at the Organization of American States are calling "a peace process".
On Mexico's western front, cartel violence escalates
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 00:00
In the past three days, gunmen in the convulsive western state of Michoacan have staged eight guerrilla-style ambushes on Mexican federal police convoys, killing four officers and wounding at least 15.
In Mexico, rails are risky crossing for a new wave of Central American migrants
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 00:00
The image of the illegal border-crosser is no longer a farmworker jumping the fence in Tijuana, analysts say. It is a Central American teenager riding on top of a Mexican freight train.
In Mexico, dismay for the border 'surge' proposed in U.S. Senate immigration bill
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 00:00
The Senate bill debate and the security buildup offered by the amendment, known as Corker-Hoeven, has reminded Mexicans that much of the United States views their country warily

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